Designer: Undercurrent Architects
Location: Sydney, Australia

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Designer: Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Location: Izu-San, Japan
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Designer: Dasic Architects
Location: Tokyo, Japan
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Designer: Robert Harvey Oshatz
Location: Portland, USA
Located on a flag lot, a steep sloping grade provided the opportunity to bring the main level of the house into the tree canopy to evoke the feeling of being in a tree house. A lover of music, the client wanted a house that not only became [...]

Designer: J. Mayer H.
Location: Ludwigsburg, Germany
The geometry of the Dupli.Casa is based on the footprint of the house that previously was located on the site, originally built in 1984 and with many extensions and modifications since then. The new building echoes the „family archeology“ by duplication and rotation. Lifted up, it creates a semi-public space [...]

Combining two of our favourite pursuits in one luxury package, the Spa Boat – designed by Norway-based, Finnish architect Sami Rintala – brings an added dimension to the standard spa weekend.
Taking a stripped-down 1950s fishing boat as the skeleton of his project, Rintala adapted the bare woods and curving walls as integral design elements of [...]

Carlo Santambrogio and Ennio Arosio pursue and achieve their design intention in which glass figures as
the unquestioned protagonist, excluding the mediation of supports that would challenge its leading role.
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Frank Tjepkema is a designer working in product, interior and graphic design. His pendant ‘Bling Bling’ for Chi Ha Paura…? launched in 2002 was constructed from several layers of overlapping logos. He develops this idea further in his new collection ‘Clockwork Love’. Here the heart is the starting point for his timepieces and through the [...]

Opéra National de Paris
Sujet de Marius Petipa
D’après un conte d’E.T.A. Hoffmann, adapté par Alexandre Dumas

J’ai vu ce magnifique ballet samedi dernier à l’Opéra Bastille! Magique! De merveilleux danseurs nous enchantent dans des costumes et des décors somptueux.
Distribution: 26 décembre 2009

CLARA
DROSSELMEYER
LUISA
FRITZ
LE CASSE NOISETTE
LA MERE
LE PERE
LA GRAND MERE
LE GRAND PERE

Mathilde Froustey
Karl Paquette
Caroline Bance
Axel Ibot
Adrien Bodet
Amélie Lamoureux
Emmanuel Hoff
Céline [...]

Indie rock band based in Brooklyn, New York fronted by Peter Silberman. This is an intimate video filmed in a parisian puppets store.

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Claridge’s, London’s iconic Mayfair hotel, has taken another bold step in its illustrious history as it unveils The Claridge’s Christmas Tree by John Galliano for Dior.
The installation evokes a frozen twist on tradition with a tropical tree complete with snow leopard, dragon flies and parrots, echoing Claridges Art deco surroundings.
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Vancouver based designer specializing in motion design and video production.

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Born 1973, Tucuman, Argentina
Currently lives & works in Frankfurt am Main
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American, born 1968
His work evolves and involves idea-based design. His custom work encompasses sculptural chandeliers, lighting environments and glass wall interiors as well as abstract vases and mirrors. Through R 20th Century, Jeff creates site-specific commissions for an exclusive clientele.
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Turkish, born 1970

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New York City • 19.11.2009

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Designer: Studio Gang Architects
Location: Chicago, USA
In an increasingly dense city like Chicago, views from a new tower must be negotiated between existing buildings. Aqua tower considers criteria such as views, solar shading and function to derive a vertical system of contours that gives the structure its sculptural form. Its vertical topography is defined by its [...]

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Joseph Walsh, irish designer, founded his Studio in 1999 in Co Cork, Ireland. His experimentation with making began at an early age and he is self-taught. He has travelled extensively to workshops of other designers and makers, to museums and galleries, observing at all times, studying and learning. Joseph sees his work as transcending design [...]

French Designer and Architect
Showroom Boffi Bains
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Laura Laine is a Helsinki based illustrator.
She has studied fashion design at University of Art and Design Helsinki, but during her studies focused on fashion illustration. After completing her studies she has been working full-time as a freelace illustrator and is also teaching fashion illustration at the university.
Her recent clients include Zara, Rad Hourani, The [...]

Nick Knight is among the world’s most influential photographers as well as being Director & founder of SHOWstudio.com the fashion & art internet broadcasting channel.  He has won numerous awards for his editorial work for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, W magazine, i-D, and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and advertising projects for clients including [...]

Shanghai Designer
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Musée du Luxembourg • Paris
L’exposition, un peu trop courte à mon goût, donne un panorama complet du travail de Louis Comfort Tiffany et de sa vie. Les différentes techniques ainsi que les types de verre employés dans les vitraux et les objets de décoration nous sont présentés et expliqués. Les couleurs et la lumière sont [...]

This Mortal Coil was a dream pop supergroup led by Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the British record label 4AD. Although Watts-Russell and John Fryer were technically the only two official members, the band’s recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting artists, many who were signed to, or otherwise associated with, 4AD. About half [...]

Explosions in the Sky is an American instrumental post-rock band from Texas. The band has garnered popularity beyond the post-rock scene for their cinematic, elaborately developed guitar work, narratively styled instrumentals, what they refer to as “cathartic mini-symphonies,” and their enthusiastic and emotional live shows

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German, born 1954
The Transparent City
This is Wolf’s first body of work to address an American city. Whereas prior series have juxtaposed humanizing details within the surrounding geometry of the urban landscape, in The Transparent City, his details are fragments of life—digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged—snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses: Edward Hopper meets Blade Runner. The material [...]

Japanese, born 1972
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Designer: Zaha Hadid
Location: Rome, Italy
MAXXI is for “Museo nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo”.
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Designer: Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects
Location: Coromandel, New Zealand
The house was conceived as a container sitting lightly on the land for habitation or the dream of habitation. The intention was to reinterpret the New Zealand building tradition – the crafting of wood – the expression of structure, cladding, lining and joinery in a raw and unique [...]

Release date: 07.04.2010 (France)
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Mia Wasikowska , Johnny Depp, Michael Sheen
French title: Alice au Pays des Merveilles
Check out the YouTube Link if you don’t have Quicktime installed on your computer.

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The Grizzly Bear’s music video are always a good surprise with that indie vein that we love. Enjoy!

Lyrics for “Ready, Able”
I’m gonna take a stab at this
Surely we’ll be alright
Make a decision with a kiss
Maybe I have frostbite
And when I shuffled on back home
I made sure all my tracks in the snow were gone
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WOW is a visual design studio based in Tokyo, Sendai and Florence.

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Some beautiful design objects from the selection made by Wallpaper*.
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Kings of Convenience are two Norwegian guys from Bergen, Erlend Øye (on the left) and Eirik Glambæk Bøe, both born in 1975.
The third album, called Declaration of Dependence, was released on October 20, 2009.
Above, you can listen to my King of Convenience’s favorite song: “Mrs. Cold”. And below, you can watch an intimate acoustic session.

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Designer: KOZ Architects
Location: Saint-Cloud, France
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“L’Univers Elegant” est un ouvrage de vulgarisation scientifique très facile d’accès. C’est une réussite vu le sujet traité. Les analogies sont imagées et très bien trouvées. Brian Greene est un excellent pédagogue, au même titre que Stephen Hawking avec “Une Brève Histoire du Temps”.
Le livre traite de la théorie des cordes et de la théorie-M: [...]

That psychedelic video clip hypnotize us with this song: “Two Weeks” by Grizzly Bear!

Lyrics for “Two Weeks”
Save up all the days
A routine malaise
Just like yesterday
I told you I would stay
Would you always
Maybe sometimes
Make it easy
Take your time
Think of all the ways
Momentary phase
Just like yesterday
I told you I would stay
Every time you try
Quarter half the mile
Just [...]

Measha Brueggergosman, canadian soprano, performs “L’Heure Exquise” by Reynaldo Hahn in ARTE Lounge. Paul Verlaine’s lyrics inspired that beautiful song.

L’Heure Exquise
La lune blanche
Luit dans les bois ;
De chaque branche
Part une voix
Sous la ramée …
Ô bien-aimée.
L’étang reflète,
Profond miroir,
La silhouette
Du saule noir
Où le vent pleure …
Rêvons, c’est l’heure.
Un vaste et tendre
Apaisement
Semble descendre
Du firmament
Que l’astre irise …
C’est l’heure [...]

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American, born 1943
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Soundtrack Listing
Episode 1 and 2
“Black Tables” by Other Lives
“Youthless” by Beck
“Wins” by Jade McNelis
“Jungle Drum” by Emiliana Torrini
“Mistaken Identity” by Steve Reynolds
“Skinny Love” by Bon Iver
“Never Bloom Again” by The Perishers
“And Then You” by Greg Laswell
“Crazy Ever After” by The Rescues
“White Horse” by Taylor Swift
“Another Door Closes” by Jont
Episode 3
“Cares At The Door” by [...]